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Have you seen the new video by young Croatian cellists Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser, otherwise known as 2Cellos? A lot of people have. It’s received more than 9 million views since its February 18 debut on YouTube.

The video is a cover version of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” with Sulic and Hauser rocking out in front of an aghast audience dressed in formal Baroque garb. (Or “Ba-rock,” as the musicians have called their interpretation of the period.)

The number is a pretty impressive feat for a couple of classically trained musicians (even if they were already blessed with dark, European good looks and great hair).

Classical musicians crossing over into mainstream pop are nothing new, but with the viral nature of social media and sites like YouTube, acts like 2Cellos, Lindsay Stirling, and the Piano Guys, have been able to exponentially expand their audiences. Stirling may hold the classical crossover title, with her “Crystallize” video having received a whopping 88 million views in just over a year.

And did you catch pianist Lang Lang pounding the keys with Metallica on the Grammys?

There is a definite undercurrent of snobbery toward these crossover artists in some classical music circles. Are a couple of guys playing AC/DC on cello just a novelty act? Are these musicians sell-outs? Will any of the 9 million viewers who watched the 2Cello video someday turn into classical music fans? (To note, the duo’s least watched performances on YouTube, by far, are the ones in which they actually perform works by classical music composers.)

But do any of these questions even matter as long as people are enjoying the music? Could this genre be just the thing to spark a young person’s interest in classical music or, after watching 2Cello’s banging their heads to Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” to even to pick up an instrument?

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